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...Austin, Texas is a town where about nine of the 40,000 University of Texas students drive Volkswagens with Kennedy bumper stickers. Everyone else drives big cars very quickly. But I was only going 15 miles an hour when I wrecked my Texas friends' 1957 Chevy...
...after my 18th birthday, I had decided to visit the Oranges, friends of my family, who had moved to Austin. A week before the crash, I climbed off the bus, dazed and dirty from a three-day ride from Boston. The place looked equally like Dallas and Texarkana to an outsider-wide, flat roads and a dingy Trailways station; except the four cheery Oranges. Arnie and his kids, were standing outside the depot, peering anxiously at the tinted bus window. I hauled myself up from my cramped position in the back seat, marched out of the bus, and managed...
...family cars-the big, gleaming '57 Chevy, which awaited us at the bus depot. Arnie hopped into the driver's seat and started the engine as Liz babbled about giant Texas scorpions which apparently awaited me in the bathtub. Between the bus station and the Oranges' house in North Austin lay six miles of dry Texas land, minus the cacti and split by the freeway. The road had six lanes heavily populated with loud, fast Camaros, Continentals, VW buses, and larger vehicles. The side street the Oranges live on is wider than Mass. Ave; in fact, their driveway is wider...
Though fives swimmers in the race qualified for the Austin, Tex. Nationals two weeks down the road, Simon ran away with the race, outdistancing the second place finisher by three seconds. The three-year-old record was 2:06:19. Now it's two-and-a-half seconds less. In the future. Simon hopes it dips even lower. "After I did it, I was happy, but I wanted to go 2:03. I guess I got almost as close...
...chances will be hurt with junior Countryman academically ineligible for the meet. . . Bernal and the team's three seniors all received Yale swimming t-shirts Saturday and the Elis three NCAA qualifiers from last year presented Bernal with a Harvard banner that mysteriously disappeared from the championship meet in Austin, Texas...